President Donald Trump's administration is about to face a "tsunami" from the federal court system, one former judge said on Wednesday.
Since Trump's second term began last January, officials and lawyers representing the administration have consistently ignored court orders that they found to be inconvenient and attacked the federal judiciary whenever judges ruled against them. Trump's days of bullying judges appear to be numbered, according to Michael Luttig, a conservative former federal judge.
Luttig said during an interview on the "Legal AF" podcast on Wednesday that federal judges are finally standing up to Trump, and that is likely to increase as the administration continues to flout their orders.
One reason he cited for the courts' change of heart is that public opinion of the Trump administration has shifted.
"Frankly, every American is against Donald Trump today except his die-in-the-wool MAGA, I believe, and of course, the Congress of the United States," Luttig said. "But that tsunami that didn't begin until a month ago was the saving grace for the lower federal courts."
"More appropriately, it gave them the needed courage from above them or outside them to do what they knew they had to do and wanted to do all along," he continued. "And that's why you've seen floodgates, every single thing leading up to most recently."
